Elika Bergelson
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Education & Training
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 2013
Overview
Dr. Bergelson is accepting applications for PhD students in the 2018-2019 Cycle; she accepts through the Developmental and Cog/CogNeuro areas of P&N and the CNAP program.
In my research, I try to understand the interplay of processes during language acquisition.
In particular, I am interested in how word learning relates to other aspects of learning language (i.e. speech sound acquisition), and social/cognitive development more broadly (e.g. joint attention processes) in the first two years of life.
I pursue these questions using two main approaches: in-lab measures of early comprehension and production (mostly with eye-tracking experiments), and at-home measures of infants' linguistic and social environment (as in the SEEDLingS project)
Expertise
Language acquisition, word learning, cognitive development, psycholinguistics
Location
Office hours: By appointment.
Contact
Links
Amatuni, A, He, E, and Bergelson, E. "Preserved Structure Across Vector Space Representations." CoRR abs/1802.00840 (2018).
Bergelson, E, and Aslin, RN. "Nature and origins of the lexicon in 6-mo-olds." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114.49 (December 2017): 12916-12921. Full Text Open Access Copy
Frank, MC, Bergelson, E, Bergmann, C, Cristia, A, Floccia, C, Gervain, J, Hamlin, JK, Hannon, EE, Kline, M, Levelt, C, Lew-Williams, C, Nazzi, T, Panneton, R, Rabagliati, H, Soderstrom, M, Sullivan, J, Waxman, S, and Yurovsky, D. "A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building." Infancy 22.4 (July 2017): 421-435. Full Text
Bergelson, E, and Swingley, D. "Young Infants' Word Comprehension Given An Unfamiliar Talker or Altered Pronunciations." Child development (June 22, 2017). Full Text Open Access Copy
Bergelson, E, and Aslin, R. "Semantic Specificity in One-Year-Olds' Word Comprehension." Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development 13.4 (January 2017): 481-501. Full Text Open Access Copy
VanDam, M, Warlaumont, AS, Bergelson, E, Cristia, A, Soderstrom, M, De Palma, P, and MacWhinney, B. "HomeBank: An Online Repository of Daylong Child-Centered Audio Recordings." Seminars in speech and language 37.2 (May 2016): 128-142. Full Text Open Access Copy
Bergelson, E, and Swingley, D. "Early Word Comprehension in Infants: Replication and Extension." Language learning and development : the official journal of the Society for Language Development 11.4 (January 2015): 369-380. Full Text Open Access Copy
Bergelson, E, and Swingley, D. "The acquisition of abstract words by young infants." Cognition 127.3 (June 2013): 391-397. Full Text Open Access Copy
Bergelson, E, Shvartsman, M, and Idsardi, WJ. "Differences in mismatch responses to vowels and musical intervals: MEG evidence." PloS one 8.10 (January 2013): e76758-. Full Text Open Access Copy
Bergelson, E, and Swingley, D. "Young toddlers' word comprehension is flexible and efficient." PloS one 8.8 (January 2013): e73359-. Full Text Open Access Copy
Pages
Bergelson, E, Amatuni, A, Casillas, M, Seidl, A, Soderstrom, M, and Warlaumont, AS. "Description of the Homebank Child/Adult Addressee Corpus (HB-CHAAC)." ISCA, 2017.
Laing, C, and Bergelson, E. "More Siblings Means Lower Input Quality in Early Language Development." cognitivesciencesociety.org, 2017.
Casillas, M, Amatuni, A, Seidl, A, Soderstrom, M, Warlaumont, AS, and Bergelson, E. "What do babies hear? Analyses of child-and adult-directed speech." January 1, 2017. Full Text
Casillas, M, Bergelson, E, Warlaumont, AS, Cristia, A, Soderstrom, M, VanDam, M, and Sloetjes, H. "A new workflow for semi-Automatized annotations: Tests with long-form naturalistic recordings of childrens language environments." January 1, 2017. Full Text
Warlaumont, AS, VanDam, M, Bergelson, E, and Cristia, A. "Home Bank: A repository for long-form real-world audio recordings of children." January 1, 2017. Full Text
Schuller, B, Steidl, S, Batliner, A, Bergelson, E, Krajewski, J, Janott, C, Amatuni, A, Casillas, M, Seidl, A, Soderstrom, M, Warlaumont, AS, Hidalgo, G, Schnieder, S, Heiser, C, Hohenhorst, W, Herzog, M, Schmitt, M, Qian, K, Zhang, Y, Trigeorgis, G, Tzirakis, P, and Zafeiriou, S. "The INTERSPEECH 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge: Addressee, Cold & Snoring." January 1, 2017. Full Text
Amatuni, A, and Bergelson, E. "Semantic Networks Generated from Early Linguistic Input." cognitivesciencesociety.org, 2017.
Bergelson, E. "Workshop on Corpus Collection, (Semi)-Automated Analysis, and Modeling of Large-Scale Naturalistic Language Acquisition Data." cognitivesciencesociety.org, 2016.
Metze, F, Riebling, E, Warlaumont, AS, and Bergelson, E. "Virtual machines and containers as a platform for experimentation." January 1, 2016. Full Text Open Access Copy
Bergelson, E, and Swingley, D. "Social and Environmental Contributors to Infant Word Learning." cognitivesciencesociety.org, 2013. Open Access Copy
Selected Grants
Analyzing Child Language Experiences Around the World (ACLEW) awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2020
Mechanisms of Word Learning in Infancy awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2019